[DemforBush]

I think you’ve pretty much nailed it. Colbert is a one trick shtick. Unless he’s been holding back some major talent (which I somehow doubt), he’s not likely to fare all that well in the late night wars.

Then again, Craig Kilborn lasted almost five years on the air, and I remain mystified about that one...

[pepsionice]

If I were Fox News....I’d quietly sit there...until the week that Colbert is about to start up, and announce we’ve got Jay Leno...starting this week....lining up forty big names for interviews, and have Jay’s garage as the back-drop for the entire show. Colbert drops ten points just on the announcement.

[Political Junkie Too]

Unless he’s been holding back some major talent 

That may very well be the case. I recently saw a PBS performance from 2007? of Stephen Sondheim's "Company," starring Neil Patrick Harris, Richard Kind, and Colbert.

-PJ

[Hardastarboard]

Some dull guy with limited interview skills, and virtually no humor without his Republican act.

I think you’ve pretty much nailed it. Colbert is a one trick shtick. Unless he’s been holding back some major talent (which I somehow doubt), he’s not likely to fare all that well in the late night wars.

He sure does bore me to death. It was a long time before I even realized he was supposed to be a comedian.

[a fool in paradise]

I think you’ve pretty much nailed it. Colbert is a one trick shtick. Unless he’s been holding back some major talent (which I somehow doubt), he’s not likely to fare all that well in the late night wars.

Even if he has some "major other talent", his audience may not like/want it.

Bob Dylan's original base HATED it when he "went electric" or in their view "went into kiddie trash, you know, rock and roll...".

George Lucas tried to make movies other than sci-fi/fantasy but his audience wasn't as supportive.

If you start with a large base, you can lose some (or win a potentially bigger new audience) and still come out successful. I don't know that Colbert can make that transition.

But for this yayhoo to say that advertisers are not pushing politics is bullstalin. Corporate liberalism exists. "Mixed couple" cereal commercials (when much other advertising shows single mother households, absent fathers altogether) or even same sex couple households, it ISN'T just about "reaching out to young viewers".

I tuned out 6 years ago. There is nothing for me in the lamestream media. It spits on my religion, ridicules my politics, and insults my heritage AND this country.